Finance committee  Yes, there were a lot of those things. I know that our association worked very closely with the environmental people here in Ottawa to try to get the permitting process to move more fluidly so that some of these projects could go through, instead of having both a provincial envir

Finance committee  We may not have a number, but Bill might have some statistics. One thing I can comment on is that in Canada, we figure that employment in our industry dropped 140,000 within the first eight months of the recession, but since then the industry has grown month over month and is n

Finance committee  Well, we certainly don't hope that happens. We are concerned that we're not seeing the return of the private sector demand that we expected or hoped for. Particularly in Alberta right now, when I talk to some of the members there, I know there's a big gap coming in some of the co

Finance committee  Any kind of stimulus that is directed towards infrastructure is a good stimulus, in our opinion. I know the two things a lot of people who live in poverty want, and in particular in first nations communities, are a job and a place to live. If you train them and you create the a

Finance committee  Yes, of course we would, because that would stimulate the economy through many different avenues. There are surveys out there that show that when infrastructure is a priority, the money that goes back into the economy through the purchase of materials and labour costs is a very g

Finance committee  We have not experienced a materiel supplier shortage, to my knowledge, across the industry. There has been shortage of certain things. Labour has been one of the issues, of course, not only because of the stimulus package but also because our industry, as I said earlier, is strug

Finance committee  I think it's important to note that the recent announcement by the minister, with respect to the stimulus deadline, was very favourable. Our industry is aware of this deadline. It's a critical deadline. The situation is that it's difficult to predict because there are a lot of un

Finance committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair. My name is Wayne Morsky. I'm the chairman of the Canadian Construction Association, or CCA, the national association representing the non-residential construction sector in Canada. This is a volunteer position. In my other life I'm the president and CEO